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Nabokov, Vladimir

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Naipaul, V. S.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Namath, Joe

When you win, nothing hurts.

Narration, "New York: A Documentary"

. . . New York would become home to the greatest concentration of wealth in human history. It would also become home to the greatest concentration of poverty, and to the greatest divisions of rich and poor, not one city, but two: one dazzling and one benighted; one city of sunshine, and another

of shadow.

Nash, Ogden

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Nash, Ogden

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

Navratilova, Martina

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Navratilova, Martina

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose that counts" probably lost.

Needham, Richard J.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honest. Possibly more.

Nevelson, Louise

I never liked the middle ground&emdash;the most boring place in the world.

Newman, John Henry Cardinal

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Newton, Sir Isaac

[We] build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Nietzsche

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Nightingale, Florence

I stand at the altar of the murdered men, and while I live, I fight their cause.

Nin, Anais

We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.

Norris, Kathleen

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

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